Bill Justus tribute on Sept 30

[Savannahbayvol]

a true VFL, could have been an ALL-SEC db if he had chosen football rather than hoops.

Tribute to Bill Justus at Fulton High - Knox TN Today

Former Tennessee Vol and Fulton High School basketball player Bill Justus will be memorialized at the Fulton High School gym on Monday, Sept. 30, at 6:30 p.m. Organizer Randy Webb said there’s no charge to attend and everyone is welcomed. At Fulton High School, Bill Justus was all-state in...

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[Caspian]

Bill Justus, Bill Hann, Tom Boerwinkle, Tom Hendrix, Bobby Croft, Larry Mansfield, and coach Ray Mears. That was the team when I discovered Tennessee basketball in 1967. I can still picture the routine Justus had at the free throw line. A different era. A different game.

 

[wmcovol]

Bill Justus, Bill Hann, Tom Boerwinkle, Tom Hendrix, Bobby Croft, Larry Mansfield, and coach Ray Mears. That was the team when I discovered Tennessee basketball in 1967. I can still picture the routine Justus had at the free throw line. A different era. A different game.

You left off the best player, Ron Widby

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Bill Justus, Bill Hann, Tom Boerwinkle, Tom Hendrix, Bobby Croft, Larry Mansfield, and coach Ray Mears. That was the team when I discovered Tennessee basketball in 1967. I can still picture the routine Justus had at the free throw line. A different era. A different game.

Croft and Mansfield were freshmen and weren’t on the varsity until a year later. Wes Coffman was the 6th man.

Widby (F)
Justus (G)
Boerwinkle (C)
Hendrix (F)
Hann (G)
Coffman (G)

 

[feathersax]

You left off the best player, Ron Whiby.

Yes, but it's spelled Widby. Billy "the Legend" Justus: could hit free throws in his sleep.

 

[Volfan1000]

a true VFL, could have been an ALL-SEC db if he had chosen football rather than hoops.

Tribute to Bill Justus at Fulton High - Knox TN Today

Former Tennessee Vol and Fulton High School basketball player Bill Justus will be memorialized at the Fulton High School gym on Monday, Sept. 30, at 6:30 p.m. Organizer Randy Webb said there’s no charge to attend and everyone is welcomed. At Fulton High School, Bill Justus was all-state in...

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Fulton High School has sent some great athletes to Tennessee.

 

[VOLLeeann]

Bill Justus, Bill Hann, Tom Boerwinkle, Tom Hendrix, Bobby Croft, Larry Mansfield, and coach Ray Mears. That was the team when I discovered Tennessee basketball in 1967. I can still picture the routine Justus had at the free throw line. A different era. A different game.

My Dad has film and often scrimmaged off-season in SAC with this group. Jimmy England, Rudy Kinard, etc. too. Mansfield was from Memphis and played with my Dad at Frayser HS.

 

[wmcovol]

Bill was a great player & better man. Very humble & kind. Spoke to him a couple times & he was very accommodating.

 

[GUNTERSVOL]

You left off the best player, Ron Widby

Quietly, real quietly, Spook Hendrix made the defense what it was running the entire baseline in the vaunted 1-3-1 defense we employed. Takes a lot of endurance to make that hold up a whole game. Not sure I ever saw him break from that dead pan expression he had. A supreme roll player.

 

[wmcovol]

Quietly, real quietly, Spook Hendrix made the defense what it was running the entire baseline in the vaunted 1-3-1 defense we employed. Takes a lot of endurance to make that hold up a whole game. Not sure I ever saw him break from that dead pan expression he had. A supreme roll player.

The baseline defender had to be a great athlete & in great condition. Kentucky, for example, would put Pat Riley in one corner & Louie Dampier in the other. Both were great shooters but Tennessee won both games so Hendrix played great.

 

[VOLtaism]

I remember vividly listening to the radio broadcast to the UT-MSU road game. The Vols needed a win for the SEC title. It came down to Justus hitting 2 free throws. Ward called the second one, "its in the air, pause, tie an orange bow on it and send back to Knoxville Tn.!"

 

[GameTime]

When I was just a kid, I went to McDonald's on Broadway and low and behold Bill Justice was working the counter....I tried to say Vanilla Milkshake, but I was so thrilled it was him I couldn't form the words....I just stuttered again and again....When I finally got the words out he said "there you go" and got me the milkshake....

I believe he was still at Fulton High school at the time...And bye the way, the milkshake was great.